A combined strategy for multivariate density estimation
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Non-linear aggregation strategies have recently been proposed in response to the problem of how to combine, in a non-linear way, estimators of the regression function (see for instance biau:16), classification rules (see ch:16), among others. Although there are several linear strategies to aggregate density estimators, most of them are hard to compute (even in moderate dimensions). Our approach aims to overcome this problem by estimating the density at a point x using not just sample points close to x but in a neighborhood of the (estimated) level set f(x). We show, both theoretically and through a simulation study, that the mean squared error of our proposal is smaller than that of the aggregated densities. A Central Limit Theorem is also proven.
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